View from the Potting Shed

I’ve just had a look at preview pics of Windows Vista, the next generation of Windows operating systems, and I’m impressed with the improved icons — although, to be fair, it offers nothing that hasn’t been available in other Unix-based operating systems (Mac OS X, Linux, etc.) for some time. I like the new […]

Still no word back from the PC engineer about the state of my hard drive. He said he’d be back some time this afternoon.
I wait in hope.
UPDATE @ 14:15
I’ve just rang PC Support Services and left a message on their answerphone.
Patience is a virtue, I’m told.

I love Gmail, the online email service from Google. When I’m not using my own email accounts — like today — I use Gmail. It’s great.
You can read about why Gmail is so special.
Gmail is still in Beta and you can get an account only by invitation. I have 100 Gmail invitations […]

My friend James showed me this link yesterday. It’s a website of Spam Art cartoons and it is positively hilarious.
Here is what the site owner has to say about his cartoons:
I get hundreds of spam e-mails per day. Rather than let them all go to waste, I figured why not put some of them […]

UPDATED @ 11:23 - see below
I’m typing this from with a Live CD ‘install’ of Ubuntu Linux. Last night my PC went down in a spectacular fashion. While I was deleting one of the partitions (partition G:) on my main hard drive (HD0) the system crashed. I rebooted and discovered that not […]

Today we’re having a shorter Eucharist service at church — 30 minutes instead of (usually just over) 60 minutes — before we all pile into a hired coach and head for Fife.
Our church building at St Salvador’s, Stenhouse, is seemingly outwardly modelled on the parish church of St Monans (or St Monance), on the Fife […]

Now, as most of you know, I’m not really one for geeky toys … but here’s a great little application that my friend James pointed me to.
VMWare Workstation 5 allows you to run another operating system within a window (or Virtual Machine) under your current machine’s operating system. If that sounds complicated: it is, […]